14–15 Oct 2023
University of Kansas
US/Central timezone

The Power of the Dark Sink

14 Oct 2023, 16:01
18m
2048 Malott Hall (University of Kansas)

2048 Malott Hall

University of Kansas

Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Kansas Lawrence, KS

Speaker

Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)

Description

I will present a novel, simple possibility with broad implications for the predicted signals of non-thermal dark matter (DM) production scenarios: the Dark Sink. The addition of this dark-sector entropy sink may significantly increase the expected signals as I will demonstrate for well-known direct detection benchmarks with $\mathcal{O}(\text{MeV})-\mathcal{O}(\text{TeV})$ DM.

Author

Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)

Presentation materials